Union Disclosure Rout

Shareholders reject the proxy ruse to kill business speech.

Politicized shareholder resolutions are the must-have tactic this year in the union campaign to scare businesses out of exercising their free speech rights. So far, they're a bellyflop.

Unions and campaign-finance scolds threw everything they had at WellPoint in recent weeks in retribution for the health insurer's political donations, but at the company's annual meeting Wednesday shareholders easily rejected two proposals intended to...